On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 05:52:29PM +0100, Burton, Ross wrote:
>
> Would anyone object to a patch set to remove all generated files
> (aclocal.m4, configure, intl/*, po/Makefile.in.in, etc) from the
> e2fsprogs git repository? They'll still exist in tarballs, but anyone
> building from git would need to run autoreconf to regenerate them -
> the plus side being that the shipped aclocal.m4 won't be forcing
> archaic macros onto users.
I don't trust autoreconf. Different versions of autoconf can end up
with different incompatible versions of autoconf macros, and I have
seen some rather disastrous failures as a result. That's why I update
autoconf under my control, and if you run autoreconf as a user, and it
breaks because the "archaic macros" work, and the "new shiny" macros
fail, that's your problem, and I will laugh at you....
- Ted
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